
Leadership Tools:
Stinky Fish Exercise
“How do you know when something smells off in your management team?”
Hello Leaders,
📉 A stinky fish in your management team: time for action! 📉
You notice it instantly in management teams:
⚠️ “Yes” in the meeting, “no” in their behavior afterward on the work floor.
⚠️ After-meetings and side deals.
⚠️ Lots of energy lost in conflicts instead of focusing on the real content.
And it’s costly: low-trust teams are 50% less productive and make decisions 4× slower.
Looking for a simple way to uncover the unspoken issues?
Discover our new digital tool, based on the well-known Stinky Fish Exercise.
A quick, anonymous way to reveal where trust within the MT is under pressure and which conversations have been postponed for far too long.
This tool builds on the insights we previously shared through our Trust Barometer Survey & -Calculator.
Because: measuring = becoming aware, but making things visible = solving them.
On Friday 12/12, we’re hosting a webinar diving deeper into this topic.
We’ll walk you through the tool, our Trust Barometer Calculator, the survey results, and real use cases—together with our mentor Ilse Vandevyvere.
Join us to discover how to turn hidden tensions into constructive conversations:

